The Robot Maker, Page 3

He walked out the door of the apartment building and turned left onto 2nd street. He walked past a row of newly remodeled apartment buildings. He admired the way that the remodel went as the buildings looked great and would surely command lots of money for rent from the new renters.

The sidewalk was in bad shape with cracks and pot holes everywhere but, that would be remedied in a months time because the computer city municipal construction company would resurface all the side walks around the city witch was a job that would take a good six months because the city was so big but, it would be worth it with the sidewalks being better and all.

Stetson hear and airplane fly overhead and he looked up and thought to himself that that was probably a jumbo jet that belonged to the computer city airline. He wondered where it was coming from and weather the jet was full of passengers as the airline was not doing well in its competition with airlines that were outside computer city. It was thought that the airline might be shut down but stetson did not think it would because he was sure computer city officials would want a home grown airline. Sure Stetson was not a people person but, he liked to keep up with the news of the city by reading all the computer city newspapers. He liked to read the paper version as opposed to the electronic computer version that was on the internet because sitting behind a computer made him feel trapped and he tried to avoid it as much as possible.

He continued walking for two blocks until he got to the computer city waterfront. He adored the waters as it made him feel free and alive. He was glad that no one was outside today so he did not have to ignore anyone and could look around and not worry about making eye contact with anyone. Birds were making noise and flying around the water the view was magnificent. He vowed to come to the waterfront more often. And he always did what he did, sometimes.

He decided to sit on a bench and watch the birds and enjoy the wind since it was a magnificent day and he did not want to hurry back inside since he was inside for most of his life and he needed a change even if it was for only one day. He saw a person in the distance and was going to move so he could avoid the person but, then the person turned onto a side street so the catastrophe was avoided without incident. Lucky for Stetson. He was the happiest that he could remember being in decades. And that was saying something.

The wind was blowing the leaves of the tress and he adored the noise of the trees rustling in the wind.